Steven came of age with the world wide web and continues to be shaped by its evolution. He started his career by co-founding the e-commerce startup, Internet Retail Connection, and grew it into a $5M business. After ten years of being the boss, it was time for a change, so Steven joined Chicago-based Dealer Inspire to lead a live chat SaaS product catering to the automotive industry. After the company was acquired by Cars.com in early 2018, Steven joined Seattle-based Nearform as a senior full-stack software engineer where he focuses on open source and JavaScript-focused client projects including React, React Native, Node, and GraphQL.
Game of Types: A Song of GraphQL and TypeScript
May 23, 2019
Over the last few years, the popularity of both GraphQL and TypeScript has exploded in the web ecosystem—and for good reason: They help developers solve real problems encountered when building modern web applications. One of the primary benefits of both technologies is their strongly typed nature.Blazing Fast Testing in Node with MongoDB
February 6, 2019
MongoDB is a document-based NoSQL database, and is a popular choice for applications in the Node ecosystem. This post is about testing in Node with MongoDB, however, and not about why you should or should not use MongoDB, so I’ll leave it to the pundits on Hacker News to hash that out.